September 17, 2008
Electric Vehicles - A Look Back and a Look Ahead
With gas prices rising worldwide and global warming gaining awareness, the need for alternatives is undeniable. It’s a new era of the automotive industry and couldn’t come a minute too soon. Green technology is today what the minivan was in the 80’s — life changing ‘ and the next decade will set a new time in our history.
The demand first came for more fuel-efficient cars and automakers answered that demand slowly and reluctantly. But we now have cars that more than double the efficiency of cars from 30 years ago. We are more efficient, cleaner and safer in our automobiles than ever. So, with the next era of new alternatives, we are entering an exciting phase of automotive history.
Automakers from around the world have increased their hybrid and electric vehicle production and have put them on fast-track schedules in order to meet the demand. Gasoline powered vehicle plants have slowed tremendously and a few automakers have even halted their own gasoline-powered production lines to create electric and hybrid production lines in order to capture the in-demand hybrid cars market by 2009.
But hybrid and electric technology is not new. In fact, the electric cars date back to the 1800’s. Non chargeable […]
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